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We’ve been working on some exciting new features recently and we wanted to take this opportunity to share them with you! Thanks to everyone that took the time to submit feature requests and email us with ideas to improve the Teachworks experience.

Effective communication is key when it comes to running a successful teaching business. A sound communication strategy for both internal and external communication can benefit your business in the following ways:

Communication with employees

Regular communication between you and your employees will help to keep them focussed, motivated, and improve overall efficiency. Reaching out to your team often and keeping them informed at all times will ensure that they feel valued and included. (more…)

Effective delegation can maximize productivity and reduce stress levels significantly. It might not be easy for you to share your workload, especially if you started your education business from the ground up. Fortunately, effective delegation is a skill that can be learnt and refined over time. With great tutor centre software on your side, you can master it in no time. (more…)

Capturing and managing new client data can be a lengthy process, especially when it involves a lot of back-and-forth communication. However, it’s an unavoidable and important task, so finding an efficient way to manage the process is essential for your teaching business. (more…)

Most companies focus the majority of their time and budget on acquiring new customers. While this is an important factor for your teaching business, you may want to shift some of your attention to your greatest resource – your existing customers. (more…)

Whether you’re running a small home tutoring business, or a large music centre with locations all over the world, scheduling will always be a crucial part of your education business.

Streamlining the scheduling process as much as possible will help you to shave hours off your work week and will free up valuable time that you can spend on expanding or improving other areas of your teaching business. With some help from great scheduling software, you can improve your scheduling efficiency and accuracy in no time.

We’ve recently added another time-saver to our list of scheduling tools — this time for companies that schedule regular group lessons. In addition to saving a ton of time, our Student Groups Add-On will also help to reduce clerical errors by ensuring that the correct students are always assigned to lessons. (more…)

A while back we added a “verified email address” feature to help improve deliverability and inbox rates for transactional emails that you send from your Teachworks account. This feature uses an email service called Postmark that carefully manages their reputation and focuses on reaching the inbox 100% of the time and delivering emails as quickly as possible. They even track and display their inbox rate and delivery times to major email providers here: https://status.postmarkapp.com/. (more…)

Scheduling is an essential part of any teaching business and because it’s such a frequent administrative task, it’s important to do it as efficiently as possible. Small time-savings from efficient scheduling will add up to large time-savings when multiplied by the number of times you complete scheduling tasks.

This article will explore 10 techniques that you can implement with some help from Teachworks to streamline the scheduling process and increase efficiency.(more…)